Panic! At The Disco - I Constantly Thank God for Esteban Song Meanings
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Lyrics:
Give us this day our daily dose of faux affliction
Forgive our sins
Forged at the pulpit with forked tongues selling faux sermons.
Because...
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anonymous
August 14th, 2006 02:08PM
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I think that you guys are reading wayyy too much into this religion thing, I think that they are more metaphors, then to be taken litterally. If you litsen to the whole cd, you'll know about the "trilogy", the 3 songs that are supposedly about that girl, who I assume cheated on the guy, anyway, I don't really know if its only just those 3 songs that talk about that, I think this one could translate back to her too.
----give us this day our daily dose of faux affliction,
forgive our sins
forged at the pulpit with forked tongues selling faux sermons----
im looking at this more as the ruined wedding (evident in I write sins not tradgdies song) so this is like him saying you shouldnt have promised to marry me if you were just gonna be a b*tch about things and lie to me.
Just stay where I can see you. (cuz he doesn't trust her)
douse the lights! (turning off the lights to have sex)
we sure are in for a show tonight.(either the act of sex itself, or the sence that's gonna be made now that he's found out about it)
----strike up the band!
Whoa! The conductor is beckoning
come congregation,let's sing it like you mean it
no. Don't you get it don't you get it? Now don't you...Move.----
shes not at the wedding, and they wanna get a move on things, but she's not there, and he doesn't really want to admit it (dont you get it?!... Dont you move) like he doesn't really want to admit that this is actually happening to him.
----in this little number we are graced by two displays of character,
we've got: the gunslinger extraordinaire, a walking contradiction;
and I for one can see no blood
from the hearts and the wrists you allegedly slit
and I for one won't stand for this
if the scene were a parish you'd all be condemned.----
the 2 characters are himself, and his fiancée. Here he compares her to the gunslinger,a walking contridiction because she can say something to his face, but is totally different behind his back ie: sleeps with someone else. The next few lines kinda show how upset he was at the time, but how now he's over this and won't have anything to do with her or let her ruin his life.. And the last line kinda makes me think that there were other people who knew what was going on, but didn't tell him.
So, I interpreted it totally different then the rest of you, but it kinda makes sence when put into context with the rest of the cd
anonymous
June 12th, 2006 06:11PM
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Simple. The narrator is accusing a church of infidelity and is using sarcasm and witticisms to mock them for being frauds and hypocrites.
anonymous
June 22nd, 2006 11:38PM
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That's because the song isn't about emo kids.
anonymous
June 22nd, 2006 11:41PM
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Just because they mention slitting doesn't mean it has to be about emo kids. The phrase is probably symbolic. Besides, I don't think P!ATD considers themselves to be emo. If you listen to what was originally tagged as emo back in the 80s, it would sound completely different from P!ATD's music style.
anonymous
June 23rd, 2006 01:35PM
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Maybe just maybe this song could be about conforming. Like conformists just a suggestion take a look it fits very very well about the light thingy maybe its I guess you could say staying cool hehe
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anonymous
June 23rd, 2006 01:35PM
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Maybe just maybe this song could be about conforming. Like conformists just a suggestion take a look it fits very very well about the light thingy maybe its I guess you could say staying cool hehe
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imXjustXme
July 18th, 2006 09:07PM
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Yeh I agree I think its kind of about panic! Too.... Because it says strike up the band and sing it like you mean it ......So maybe panic! Is saying to other people that they need to sing with heart and like you really meant it iunno hoping that's it! Pce
anonymous
July 18th, 2006 11:45PM
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Brendon grew up mormon.
And it sounds like he's describing mormon missionaries preaching.
Mormon missionaries aren't aloud to be alone with females at all on their mission. They're aren't even aloud to hug females or have any contact whatsoever.
And the line "stay where I can see you douse the lights"
makes me think that he's expecting the missionaries to break the rules and do something to force him to believe in what they're preaching. Kind of saying they'll go to any extent to convert you?
anonymous
August 5th, 2006 05:36PM
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I think it's about a kind of religion or cult
somehow, they get hostages:
"don't you get it? Now don't you move
just stay where I can see you
douse the lights
we sure are in for a show tonight"
the "priest" keeping them under control.
Also, during that line, you can hear people chattering.
"I can see no blood from the hearts and the wrists"
the hostages are questioning the hostagetaker's ability to kill or just generally don't think they are able to kill.
Also, if I'm not mistaken he says
"the gunslinging (friar) extraordinaire a walking contradiction" maybe makes more sence.
It could also be about a friar/priest gone berserk
anonymous
August 12th, 2006 11:24PM
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This song is very obvious. Panic! At the disco doesn't agree with the way the church is run. They think that every week you must go in to church and pretend that you are sorry for your sins, when in actuality, the whole church is just faking their sorrow. He thinks the pastors and congregation preach and sing with no meaning, and are just a bunch of hypocrites.
anonymous
October 10th, 2006 04:37PM
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Everybody always says,"I think it's part of the trilogy" just so they can sound cool by showing everybody up. Not every song is part of the goddamn trilogy. This one in particular is about the hypocritical church idea that some people with common sense were talking about earlier.
anonymous
October 31st, 2006 07:49PM
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Okay, I agree with the person above me. Not every song on the track has to do with the trilogy. Its a trilogy. Which means three songs are involved only. Lying is the most fun...Etc, but its better if you do, and I write sins not tragedies. Xx';; okay now that that's done and over with the song is simple.
Its talking about all the contradictions the catholic church has. At least, that's what I think. "gunslinging extraordinare walking contradiction..." and "if this scene were a parish you'd all be condemned". Is just saying that some catholics just go to church act as if they're sorry about their sins, and that they believe every single word that's preached to them, yet outside of church they don't really and they question a lot of things and even support things the church wouldn't.
But that's what I think...I understand where some of the other interpretations are coming from...Very interesting.
=girl known as murfin=
anonymous
November 2nd, 2006 01:27PM
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This song is about "stephen patrick morrissey" otherwise known as "esteban" most of the lyrics refer to songs by morrissey and the smiths. They are tired of the new scene copying and preaching what the "smith and morrissey" used to preach. "douse the light" refers to morrissey's "theres a light that never goes out. "panic at the disco" name derived from "the smiths" song "panic" in the lyrics, "burn down the disco"
anonymous
November 15th, 2006 06:48PM
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I personally think that it's about how religions (particularly christianity, but not all of it) are soooo un-enthusiastic ("if you're gonna preach, for god sakes preach with conviction!") about their religion. Maybe I'm just crazy, but that's what I got from the song.
anonymous
November 28th, 2006 06:59AM
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its about the hypocrisy of the press.
'gentlemen, if you're gonna preach, for god's sake preach with conviction'
its talking about how the press say one thing then do another and that they have the whole world listening to what they say, but they don't take any responsibility to that and just make up whatever they like as long as it sells a story.
'congregation, lets sing it like you mean it! no? don't you get it?'
saying that no matter how many times you try to explain it the masses will be lead by whatevers being fed to them through their TV screens, regardless of whether or not it is true.
anonymous
December 2nd, 2006 12:55AM
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well, faux affliction means fake state of pain so I think this means give us our daily dose of fake pain and as it says, forgive our sins? (I don't know, just guessing)
ViolentPosex
January 22nd, 2007 04:31PM
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C'mon we all know they are talking about scenes (emo/punk/goth/whatever).
What they're trying to say is that everything's a lie & they all "pray with no conviction".
anonymous
January 31st, 2007 07:07PM
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im pretty sure it's about "survivor" but that's just me...
anonymous
June 5th, 2007 04:00PM
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Ok I broke some of the lines down
-FAUX AFFLICTION= FAKE PAIN
-FORGED AT THE PULPIT= forced to go to church.
-JUST STAY WHERE I CAN SEE YOU. DOUSE THE LIGHTS WE SURE ARE IN FOR A SHOW TONIGHT= the guy is tellin the other person to stay in a place where he can see him so he can see if he does anything bad.
-GUNSLINGER EXTRAORDINAIR WALKING CONTRADICTIONS= the guy does everything different then anyone else.
Yeah that's all I got so far but I will dig deeper into it when I have more time but let me know if you agree or not.
anonymous
June 12th, 2007 05:34AM
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This is song is just calling catholics hypocrites
smartgurl333
July 7th, 2007 06:57PM
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The main theme of this song is that if you're going to claim to believe in something you have to actually live by it, you can't be a hypocrite. No matter which way you look at it's about hypocrisy. If you take it kind of literally It's kind of like religious hypocrites from an atheist's point of view.
--Give us this day our daily dose of faux affliction Forgive our sins Forged at the pulpit with forked tongues selling faux sermons.--
That's mocking the people who are religious, saying that they're all naive or fakes.
--Because I am a new wave gospel sharp, and you'll be thy witness So gentlemen, if you are going to preach, for God sakes preach with conviction! --
basically says that "Well I could pretend to be a gospel too, and I'd be more convincing than you even though I don't even believe in what I'm saying"; accusing them of blatant hypocrisy
--Strike up the band! Whoa-oh, the conductor is beckoning Come congregation, let's sing it like you mean it No. Don't you get it, don't you get it? Now don't you move. Strike up the band! Whoa-oh, the conductor is beckoning Come congregation, let's sing it like you mean it No. Don't you get it, don't you get it? Now don't you move. --
this is kind of mockingly inviting you to join him in his fraud religion and put all of your conviction into it and saying "don't you understand how big of a hypocrite you're being?"
--Just stay where I can see you. Douse the lights! We sure are in for a show tonight --
He's announcing that the "show" is about to begin, the "show" being him shoving hypocrisy in the face of the hypocrite.
--In this little number we're graced by two displays of character, We've got: the gunslinger extraordinaire walking contradictions And I for one can see no blood from the hearts and the wrists you allegedly slit And I for one won't stand for this if this scene were a parish you'd all be condemned.--
a metaphor comparing these "religious sinners" to a gunslinger whose never killed. By saying "I see no blood from the hearts and the wrists you allegedly slit" it basically says that these hypocrites preach and preach but never follow their own rules.
If you don't take it literally you could apply it to almost anything that could be related to hypocrisy (e.x. music "fans" who don't even try to understand the lyrics they listen to, musicians who don't believe in what they write, etc.)
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